A minor's pregnancy should be reported

News-Times, The (Danbury, CT)

Published
1:00 am EDT, Tuesday, April 27, 2004

"Bill targets sex predators" is the lead headline in the April 15 News-Times. That is good news. However, if state legislators want to identify and crack down on sex predators who prey on minors, they should insist on enforcing a law that has been on the books for years. The law requires that if there is evidence of sexual activity with a minor, a report must be filed with a child protection agency or a state law enforcement agency. A pregnancy, of course, is proof of sexual activity. But Planned Parenthood and other abortion mills in our state have not been reporting. They have been breaking the law, as confirmed by the state's attorney's office. The non-reporting amounts to a cover-up and protection for the child predators. We need to know how many reports have been made during the last 12 months by these abortion mills. Most of all, we need to know why our legislators are not insisting on the enforcement of the law. Please give your legislators a call and ask them! Their phone numbers are in the blue pages of the phone book under the heading, "Connecticut state of" and the subhead "state legislators." Laws that are not promulgated and enforced are worthless.